Able's destiny

James Wynn · 21 Feb 2005, 15:22 · from 2005-February.txt.gz

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From: thewynns at earthlink.net (James Wynn)
Date: Mon Feb 21 15:22:20 2005
Subject: (urth) Able's destiny
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Questions off the beaten track will persist as long as there are no
legitimate interesting topics to discuss. As long as the topics are mildly
interesting are they so much worse than nothing? However, I commend you for
trying to get everyone back to something that interests you and is on topic.

Since Able and Arthur a in some way the same person, I would say they have
to be linked from birth. It has been postulated  that Arthur's mother or
father was from Mythgarthr. I'm not sure this explains everything. I suspect
(although some seem viscerally hostile to the notion, that all the seven
worlds are "in" Arthur.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kieran Mullen" <kieran at ou.edu>
To: <urth at urth.net>
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 5:43 PM
Subject: (urth) META: Where can I find a discussion list for Gene
Wolfe'sbooks?

>At the risk of being rude, I pose the above question.   Of late I
>find very little discussion of Wolfe and lots of thoughts on distantly
>related topics.   Perhaps I am the only one, but such random
>ruminations is the reason why I unsubscribed to this list for a few
>years.  I had hoped people be might discussing the Wizard-Knight books.
>
>So, I'll kick it off.  Is Able just some kid who wanders into
>Mythgathr, or was he fated to do so?   By the latter I mean does he
>have some special relationship to Mythgathr before the start of the
>first book?

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